Reason Writers Around Town: Radley Balko on the Drug War's Collateral Damage for Culture11

As part of the right-ish web 'zine Culture11's symposium on the drug war, Reason senior editor Radley Balko details the long list of collateral casualties caused by drug prohibition.

Comments

[J sub D]

Out-fucking-standing article. Kilokudos are due Radley Balko, the most effective anti-drug war advocate in the nation today.

Reasonoids, please E-mail his op-ed to a friend who's not in the choir.

[Xeones]

Radley goes to 11.

Seriously outstanding.

[ktc2]

At this point there is no longer even so much as a "good faith" argument in support of the drug war. Anyone still supporting it is either evil or uninformed.

[Tyler]

Props for absolutely schooling the pro-prohibition guy.

[Ken Shultz]

dhex, on another site, linked to Balko's dismantling of Freddoso on Blogginheads.tv in regards to this article.

http://bloggingheads.tv/diavlogs/17092

Did somebody link that somewhere already?

[Episiarch]

The climax came in 1986, when Maryland basketball phenom and Boston Celtics draft pick Len Bias died of a cocaine overdose.

Who is the only Celtic under six feet?

Len Bias.

(That one never gets old.)

[FrBunny]

Fantastic piece; accessible and comprehensive. You are a patriot and hero, Balko.

[TofuSushi]

Drugs should be free.

[Warty]

Fuck Len Bias. The real tragic coke death in 1986 was Don Rogers. Cost the Browns a Super Bowl or two.

[Nick]

Tofu ruins everything.

The food of the same name sucks as well.

[sage]

I love how the printer friendly version of the article, isn't. What a waste of paper.

[ev]

broken record alert: you did fucking school him Balko. You were more expressive and informed than your sparring partner and had more specifics to spear him with. Beautiful.

And I am going to send that article to parents/friends/critics because of its beauticity. Not sure if that's a word. But it is now.